Paul Theroux detailed this author's monomaniacal behavior in a book named for this writer's "shadow." Derek Walcott called this author "a rodent in old age" in "The Mongoose," a poem written in retaliation for this author's dismissal of Walcott in the first chapter of A Writer's People. This author wrote "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it" as the opening line of a novel about a dictator who imprisons the Indian narrator Salim. This author described his journeys to the Islamic world in Beyond Belief and Among the Believers,
Paul Theroux detailed this author's monomaniacal behavior in a book named for this writer's "shadow." Derek Walcott called this author "a rodent in old age" in "The Mongoose," a poem written in retaliation for this author's dismissal of Walcott in the first chapter of A Writer's People. This author wrote "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it" as the opening line of a novel about a dictator who imprisons the Indian narrator Salim. This author described his journeys to the Islamic world in Beyond Belief and Among the Believers, and gained renown for a novel about Mohun's quest to own a home. For 10 points, name this author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas.
Paul Theroux detailed this author's monomaniacal behavior in a book named for this writer's "shadow."
Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) {Naipaul}